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re: The Wire
Posted on 8/9/25 at 7:23 am to FLTech
Posted on 8/9/25 at 7:23 am to FLTech
I can’t fathom it. I started E1 last night because it’s been a while and it’s instantly into the craziness of the streets, McNulty getting into shite, funny cop stuff, etc. It’s almost like yall didn’t really watch it and are trolling honestly.
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Posted on 8/9/25 at 7:38 am to Havoc
Maybe i didnt watch it enough, but McNulty is one of the main reasons it didnt click. He was a bland white guy. Maybe he got better but nothing he did made me like him enough to draw me in.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 7:39 am to LSUisSEC
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He was a bland white guy.
What the frick did he do?
Posted on 8/9/25 at 7:48 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 8/9/25 at 7:49 am to Rooster2023
It really gets a lot of love here. I will watch one day just because of that.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 9:38 am to LSUisSEC
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but McNulty is one of the main reasons it didnt click. He was a bland white guy. Maybe he got better but nothing he did made me like him enough to draw me in.
Then you obviously did not get to S2 when when he tracks historical tides and weather patterns so he can stick bodies from a cargo ship on Rawls
This post was edited on 8/9/25 at 10:18 am
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:27 am to H-Town Tiger
If it takes a whole season to make the main character palatable, its not very good writing and or acting
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:40 am to LSUisSEC
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If it takes a whole season to make the main character palatable, its not very good writing and or acting
Him sticking bodies on Rawls was just his peak moment, the character was good from jump it’s just that there are other, better characters. Also hes not really a “main” character like in a standard network police procedural. He does set the plot in motion but he’s more part of an ongoing ensemble. However, saying the Wire doesn’t have good writing is a comically bad take even for a contrarian
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:02 pm to LSUisSEC
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Maybe i didnt watch it enough, but McNulty is one of the main reasons it didnt click. He was a bland white guy. Maybe he got better but nothing he did made me like him enough to draw me in.
If you’re looking for likable characters, you might want to stay away from shows like The Wire, Sopranos, and to a lesser extent Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Series like that create morally flexible characters that give you glimpses of possible redeeming qualities.
They are trying to do the opposite of Andy Griffith.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:05 pm to LSUisSEC
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Maybe i didnt watch it enough, but McNulty is one of the main reasons it didnt click. He was a bland white guy.
Man, perception is so subjective!!
McNulty is, at the same time, an incredible detective and a horrible cop, a saint and a degenerate, very cunning and wily but still often dumb AF.
Hopefully I don’t sound mad because I appreciate the subjectivity of things, but damn, I just don’t get it.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 3:46 pm to H-Town Tiger
I said IF. I never said the whole show had bad writing
Posted on 8/9/25 at 9:36 pm to Rooster2023
Maybe just not for you. I loved The Wire. I also really liked The Shield.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 9:46 pm to LSUisSEC
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Maybe i didnt watch it enough, but McNulty is one of the main reasons it didnt click
I feel like some of you are just trolling at this point
Posted on 8/10/25 at 10:55 am to Tiger Ugly
it might get love from everywhere
Eta: It’s the best show ever, we don’t care if people of a certain color don’t like it
Eta: It’s the best show ever, we don’t care if people of a certain color don’t like it
This post was edited on 8/10/25 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/10/25 at 11:58 am to smash williams
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we don’t care if people of a certain color don’t like it
White people?
Posted on 8/10/25 at 2:05 pm to SlowFlowPro
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White people?
Was confused by this as well.
Posted on 8/10/25 at 7:59 pm to BugaNation86
Im definitely not trolling. He just didnt do it for me. I MAY try and start it. If it doesnt hit me right this time it never will
Posted on 8/10/25 at 8:07 pm to smash williams
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we don’t care if people of a certain color don’t like it
white people are the reason why the wire became the greatest tv show ever
Posted on 8/10/25 at 9:01 pm to BugaNation86
truth, Baltimore is crazy white
Posted on 8/10/25 at 9:34 pm to Willie Stroker
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The Wire is to tv cop dramas what The Beatles were to pop music.
You can appreciate them for what they did rather than on how modern audiences judge them based on content alone.
The Wire took a very successful show like Homicide: Life on the Street, and made a better reboot. They made the tv cop drama better.
The Wire showed us glimpses of the daily lives of “the bad guys” juxtaposed against the sordid lives of the cops. Every cop was flawed, just as every criminal had some redeeming qualities. They successfully broke away even further from the old western white hat vs black hat contrast tv used to embrace. It showed us complex characters and inner workings of both sides of the criminal behavior battle.
The series was cleverly done with each season taking a major crime that needed to be solved, and then taking all season to solve it instead of giving us each episode with a totally new crime that gets resolved in an hour.
Each season focused on a different aspect of the problems with criminal behavior.
And they cleverly employed many actors from Homicide: Life on the Street as an homage to what inspired a more ambitious reboot.
interesting concept, cop shows as rock bands
I will take a shot at this
the beatles of cop shows for me was Hill Street Blues
homicide life on the street is the yardbirds
the wire is led zeppelin
law and order is the rolling stones
nypd blue is the who
the shield is nirvana
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